Harmonia Mundi
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Purcell - Funeral Sentences
RecommendedTessa Bonner & Patrizia Kwella
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
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Building a Library, October 2017, Recommended Recording
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The Trio Wanderer are expert in addressing both works…the performance of the Dumky Trio is in many ways exemplary. Throughout, the performers are alive to the interplay of sadness and laughter... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2017, Winner - Musique de Chambre
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Steger's virtuosity is, from a listener's viewpoint and indeed from his own, breathtaking, and he loses no opportunity in demonstrating it. For my taste, though, there is too much gimmickry... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2014, Editor's Choice
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the period players of Cuarteto Casals reveal an intimate uderstanding of the special qualities of Mozart's quartet style...virtually every phrase is brought to life and coloured by some variations... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014, Editor's Choice
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Astonishingly insightful playing, musically captivating and technically blemishless. Each and every phrase rings so completely true that one can't imagine the music being played any other way. —
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Building a Library, January 2012, Recommended Recording
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Hugo Wolf: Kennst du das Land
lieder by Goethe, Eichendorff, Mörike
Sophie Karthäuser (soprano) & Eugene Asti (piano)
Karthauser…is sensitive to Wolf’s sour-sweet, ever-shifting harmonies, and the raw nerves of the melodic line as it responds to the verse. And she is warmly supported by every nuance of accompaniment... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2016, Editor's Choice
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Schubert Lieder Volume 2: An Mein Herz
Matthias Goerne (baritone), Eric Schneider (piano) and Helmut Deutsch (piano)
Goerne… and Schneider offer grave and solemn performances of Goethe's Mignon and Harper songs, before ending on a higher note, celebrating the eternal joy of love in 'Willkommen and Abschied'. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2008, Editor's Choice
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The interpretation of the Debussy Quartet has sinew and propulsion, with that apt shading of dynamics and subtlety of nuance that have become hallmarks of the Arcanto's distinctive and distinguished... —
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Building a Library, January 2019, Recommended Recording
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Staier reveals no shortage of finely-judged colours in the finale's central episode… playing its lyrical major-mode passages with admirable lightness of touch, and its C minor outbursts with... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2009, Editor's Choice
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Planès knows exactly how much of himself to impose and how much to leave alone. He is not averse to an occasional exaggeration, but never loses sight of the whole. Clarity, both of note and... —
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Building a Library, December 2018, Also Recommended
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